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The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program in West Virginia received a share of a $12 million federal grant to boost recruitment and retention of providers in primary care. The program helps train physicians in practice areas including family and internal medicine.

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Nicole Allenton, a former dental hygienist and office manager of a Kennewick, Wash.-based dental clinic, pleaded guilty to obtaining a controlled substance through fraud. Allenton, who was previously charged in a similar fraud scheme, is accused of using her position at the clinic to forge painkiller prescriptions for family members under the name of dentist Kevin Osborne. Allenton faces a one-year jail term and will be sentenced on Feb. 24.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a measure into law that will require facilities offering mammograms to notify women of their dense breast tissue and that subsequent screenings may be warranted. The law goes into effect in January.

Muhammad Shahab, the 53-year-old operator of two Detroit-based home health care businesses, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for leading a fraud scheme that bilked Medicare of $10.8 million. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Shahab maintained the scheme from 2007 to 2009, before pleading guilty in February 2010. Shahab was also accused of using kickbacks to get physician referrals for unneeded home health care services.

An injectable solution that delivers a high dose of radiation to solid, inoperable tumors is set to be tested at the University of Washington. A Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant, awarded to a Battelle researcher, is funding a portion of the trials for the radiogel. Advanced Medical Isotope has a license to manufacture and distribute the agent.

Citizens for Medical Isotopes sponsored a medical isotope symposium Wednesday, which included the Rev. Jesse Jackson along with experts who discussed the progress isotopes have made toward disease treatment.